{"id":8307,"date":"2011-07-20T07:30:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T11:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/?p=8307"},"modified":"2011-07-20T08:08:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T12:08:20","slug":"aldi-this-is-where-i-am-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2011\/07\/aldi-this-is-where-i-am-at\/","title":{"rendered":"Aldi&#8230;this is where I am at"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[singlepic id=1799 w=425 h=300 mode=web20 float=](click on image for full view)<\/p>\n<p>Here we are\u2026almost thirty years since Sattler\u2019s occupied 998 Broadway and almost ten years since K-Mart closed up shop.<\/p>\n<p>Aldi, the low price supermarket who have popped up all over WNY and Buffalo over the last decade has its sights set on Buffalo\u2019s famous 998 Broadway address.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/city\/communities\/east-side\/article493642.ece\" target=\"_blank\">Yesterday project developers met with the Buffalo Planning Board and ran into some opposition to the project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am not opposed to Aldi setting up shop across from the Broadway Market. \u00a0My thinking is that they will draw people to the area who would typically not go\u2026even if a small percentage of that crowd would go to the Market, that is a bonus. \u00a0As for it\u2019s impact on Save-A-Lot (a\u00a0similar supermarket)\u00a0inside of the Market, that is what the free market and competition is all about.<\/p>\n<p>What I do have a problem with is the store being set back off Broadway\u2026the store should be as close to the street as possible. \u00a0I don\u2019t think it is too much to ask Aldi to do.<\/p>\n<p>I think Aldi could also lead to the redevelopment of the K-Mart building if\u00a0successful and help with drawing commercial interest to other properties in B-F business district.<\/p>\n<p>Look at the picture above\u2026it is of an Aldi in Minneapolis built to the street. \u00a0Having a 998 Aldi built to the street will fill a void that has been there since Sattler\u2019s was demo\u2019d in 1987.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully Aldi will not pull out from the project and become an active partner in making things work to make B-F better.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgottenbuffalo.com\/forgottenbuffalolost\/sattlers998.html\" target=\"_blank\">click here for history of Sattler\u2019s and 998 Broadway<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[singlepic id=1799 w=425 h=300 mode=web20 float=](click on image for full view) Here we are\u2026almost thirty years since Sattler\u2019s occupied 998 Broadway and almost ten years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,1,8],"tags":[71,696,1134,452,152],"class_list":["post-8307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alive-business","category-news","category-b-f-places","tag-998-broadway","tag-aldi","tag-broadway-market","tag-sattlers","tag-the-broadway-market"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-29Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}